News about EPICT

November 23-24 EPICT Italy hosted the EPICT Forum in Rome. At the meeting were representatives from a number of EPICT organizations around the world: Australia, Austria, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Sri Lanka, the UK, as well as representatives from the Italian Ministry of Education.
We discussed a number of issues such as the future direction of EPICT, ways of strengthening our international collaboration, and the work of the International Editorial Board.

In Austria the Ministry of Education together with a number of institutions educating teachers has just finished piloting the EPICT concept.

And with success, judging from the evaluations and personal reports from both EPICT facilitators and course participants. If you understand German, you can find a lot of interesting reports concerning EPICT in Austria at the following address: e-LISA Academy Newsletter

EPICT is now on YouTube! Watch this video from PH Burgenland on EPICT in Austria: EPICT on YouTube

In Ireland EPICT is currently being piloted in two schools in Dublin

EPICT has been introduced in Sri Lanka as the International Pedagogical ICT license, thus IPICT.

It is part of a large-scale attempt of the Ministry of Education in Sri Lanka to improve the educational system and to bring the skills of Sri Lankan students up-to-date with the integration of ICT in teaching and learning.

In Australia, AISWA, Australian Independent Schools Western Australia, has trained the first group of facilitators and have started piloting the concept in 16 schools in WA.